Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
index 7fa155c..6963b64 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@
printk("\n");
notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err, current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV);
show_registers(regs);
+ add_taint(TAINT_DIE);
/* Executive summary in case the oops scrolled away */
printk(KERN_ALERT "RIP ");
printk_address(regs->rip);